HOME | DD

Description
Apophysis 3D and PSP Pro XI.

Sometimes when you are working on a fractal image, deciding on how to present the image becomes as important as the image itself. In this case, there was something about the abstract that attracted me to it, and begged for something more. Chaotic and expressive of my mood, dramatic in the native black with the lighting and details starkly displayed against the negative background, but still visible and evoking of more moods when I used the graduated yellow and red backgrounds. Which one to keep?

Huh. Well, all of them, obviously. And not as three individual submissions, but as one work, in three phases...just as chaotic, diffuse, and schizoid as my mind is these days...just as meaningful or meaningless as my life is these days...just as much as I love it or hate it these days.

...

Just because.

Atom Heart Mother. Are you old enough to remember? I listened through the smoky haze in the room, the smoky haze in my brain, and wondered if my mind would ever be the same again....nearly forty years later and I can say, "well, of course not, silly boy." and know exactly what a wonderful thing that is, after all.

-=b=-

...

Description
Apophysis 3D and PSP Pro XI.

Sometimes when you are working on a fractal image, deciding on how to present the image becomes as important as the image itself. In this case, there was something about the abstract that attracted me to it, and begged for something more. Chaotic and expressive of my mood, dramatic in the native black with the lighting and details starkly displayed against the negative background, but still visible and evoking of more moods when I used the graduated yellow and red backgrounds. Which one to keep?

Huh. Well, all of them, obviously. And not as three individual submissions, but as one work, in three phases...just as chaotic, diffuse, and schizoid as my mind is these days...just as meaningful or meaningless as my life is these days...just as much as I love it or hate it these days.

...

Just because.

Atom Heart Mother. Are you old enough to remember? I listened through the smoky haze in the room, the smoky haze in my brain, and wondered if my mind would ever be the same again....nearly forty years later and I can say, "well, of course not, silly boy." and know exactly what a wonderful thing that is, after all.

-=b=-

...